About object definitions.

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tiernan, Michael C.
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:12 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] About object definitions.
> 
> Another question about definitions, did I miss something in the
> documentation?
> 
> I'd like to define a host object:
> define host{
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      1
>         check_period            24x7
>         contact_groups          testadmins
>         notification_interval   1
>         notification_period     anytime
>         notification_options    d,u,r,f
>         name                    unix_hosts
> }
> 
> and then be able to use it:
> 
> define host {
> 	host_name	myhost
> 	alias		big box
> 	address	10.0.0.0
> 	use		unix_hosts
> }
> 
> but it complains about the original definition being blank/null.
> 
> I know the object definition works right if I do this:
> 
> define host{
>         host_name               thatbox
>         alias                   Bob's Linux Machine
>         address                 10.1.0.0
>         check_command           check-host-alive
>         max_check_attempts      1
>         check_period            24x7
>         contact_groups          testadmins
>         notification_interval   1
>         notification_period     anytime
>         notification_options    d,u,r,f
>         name                    unix_hosts
> }
> 
> and then use 'unix_hosts" after that.
> Simplified, can I define unix_hosts without assigning a machine name
to
> it?

Yep. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templaterecursion.html. Add
'register 0' to your template object.

"register	[0/1]

The third variable is register. This variable is used to indicate
whether or not the object definition should be "registered" with Nagios.
By default, all object definitions are registered. If you are using a
partial object definition as a template, you would want to prevent it
from being registered (an example of this is provided later). Values are
as follows: 0 = do NOT register object definition, 1 = register object
definition (this is the default). This variable is NOT inherited; every
(partial) object definition used as a template must explicitly set the
register directive to be 0. This prevents the need to override an
inherited register directive with a value of 1 for every object that
should be registered."


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